Product Description: As we move further into the 21st century, increasing emphasis is being placed on the importance of technology transfer. Through new research and practices, scholars, practitioners and policymakers have made great strides in broadening our understanding and ability to implement technology transfer and commercialization processes...read more

Product Description: The move toward sustainable energy production and use is one the most challenging and profound changes currently taking place in the world s established and emerging economies. Energy and Innovation: Structural Change and Policy Implications presents a series of informative case studies from Norway, the United Kingdom, Poland, the United States, Russia, Japan, and China that demonstrate how the pace of sustainable energy production differs by country...read more

Product Description: The challenge of connecting people, ideas, and resources across communities stems from the quest for competition in a global world, at the same time that the basic infrastructure to foster wealth creation is asymmetrically distributed across regions of the globe.

Product Description: Regional Development and Conditions for Innovation in the Network Society looks at fundamental changes at the start of the new millennium, as innovation is gaining increasing importance for local economic prosperity and the emergence of learning societies...read more

Product Description: Learning and Knowledge for the Network Society discusses technology, policy and manage­ment in a context much influenced by a dynamic of change and a necessary balance between the creation and diffusion of knowledge. It is largely grounded on empirical experiences of different regional and national contexts and addresses the dynamics of the process of knowledge accumulation, which drives a learning society...read more

Essays examine the new knowledge-based economy, discussing regional economic development, policies regarding technology and innovation, and corporate strategies for the changing economy.

Product Description: The essays in this book examine the role of education and the university in economic development. It is the contention of the contributors that knowledge—ideas and skilled and educated people—are increasingly important for economic development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Despite the unprecedented development and growth of knowledge during the 20th century, the evolution of a peaceful 21st century will depend on our ability to address the challenges of prosperity, sustainability, and security. From these challenges, this collection seeks to devise a research agenda to help us to understand better the knowledge-based economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Shaken by the dramatic inroads made by Japanese competitors into high-tech electronics, a number of U.S. electronic firms joined forces in 1982 to form the first U.S. for-profit research consortium: MCC (Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp...read more

Product Description: The technopolis is an innovative approach to economic development that involves linking technology commercialization with effective public and private-sector initiatives to create new infrastructures for economic growth, diversification, and global competitiveness...read more

Product Description: Spurred on by the increasing international competition, the rising cost of advanced research, the need to leverage scarce scientific and technical talent, and the desire to share the risk associated with technology generation and commercialization, technology companies are banding together in research and development consortia and innovative strategic alliances...read more

Product Description: Economic policymakers throughout the world are looking increasingly toward technology-related business activities to encourage economic growth. In Technology Companies and Global Markets, 39 leading experts-from academia, business, and government-representing 15 nations consider diverse topics on the foremost edge of technology generation, transfer, and diffusion...read more

Product Description: University-based research is increasingly leading to business opportunities beyond academia. Notable examples include Hewlett Packard from Stanford University and Digital Equipment Corp. from MIT. This volume explores this emerging phenomenon in order to offer an efficient solution to the problem of launching academic ventures...read more

Product Description: Technology Transfer brings together for the first time research from group, organizational, media and interpersonal communication perspectives. The central topics considered include: } identification and definition of technology transfer } organization to enhance technology transfer } the roles of universities, government and industry in the technology transfer environment } the distinctive elements of the communication process in technology transfe...read more